Young person chose assisted death

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Anonymous wrote:If SHE isn't ok with her condition, it doesn't matter a single flying f*** what you or anyone else thinks. How dare you think you know better than her. "wasn't that bad". GFY op.

+1 You sound like a very small person to judge someone who has an incurable disease about how much pain they're willing to tolerate.

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Anonymous wrote:My mother died of ALS at 41. It's a horrible disease. If I were diagnosed, I would get my affairs in order and call it a day before things really progressed. People should be able to do that if they have something incurable.

My dad also died from ALS and I agree with you.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone we know my an announcement on social media that in her 30s she was choosing to end her life and waa approved to end her life in another country. Her message posted on social media was confusing and unsettling to pretty much everyone that knew her that we know.

She said she had an incurable disease that wasn't that bad but was choosing to end her life before it got bad because her life wouldn't be the way she imagined it and that we'd never hear from her again.

I think that line sort of stuck with us. That life wasn't worth living if it was as someone less abled or exactly as imagined.

I'm very pro assisted death. I don't understand how we can put animals down and watched loved ones suffer, but this one just feels so...

IMO , this is by design.
People like you, OP, likely support assisted death as an option bc you picture great grandma suffering in her final days…and it seems humane.

But the people who pushed this into law are proponents of eugenics and population control. They know this will not only appeal to people who have terminal illlnesses, but they will push it onto younger and younger people (many with mental health disorders) who will accept that this is a solution for a less than ideal life.

There should be a rule no self harm while parents still alive. Otherwise I have no issue with “younger ppl with mental health disorders” choosing it.
At least their kids won’t inherit it. But don’t hurt the parents

“At least their kids won’t inherit it”— that right there is exactly what eugenics is all about.

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Information is not entirely clear. Incurable could mean terminal, and terminal can mean soon or a long time from now. There is a family that has been the subject of a lot of Alzheimer's research because it is a particular inherited type of early onset Alzheimer's that can be tested for but couldn't in the early generations (going back to the 1920s or so iirc). Before the cause was known, several generations had their families first torn apart because of a parent who became extremely mentally unstable and often turned to alcohol before dying at a relatively young age, only to gradually see siblings suffer the same fate. In one fmaily, one sibling out of seven was free the genetic inheritance.

If someone has an incurable disease that is also terminal on some time scale, if they wait too long they will be ineligible to use assisted suicide. They have to be physically able to administer medication themselves as well as be able to make the legal decision to go ahead at the time they do it.

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Anonymous wrote:If there is no God, everything is permitted.

If there is a God, he certainly permits babies and children to be raped and killed.

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Anonymous wrote:If SHE isn't ok with her condition, it doesn't matter a single flying f*** what you or anyone else thinks. How dare you think you know better than her. "wasn't that bad". GFY op.

I mean, by this logic, are you fine with anyone committing su*cide anytime for any (or no) reason? Why involve a doctor at all? In my view, this attitude is very problematic.

Apparently this is the situation for this country. You don't need medical clearance to do it. You just need to be of sound mind.

This isn’t adding up. There isn’t any country in the developed world that offers any form of assisted death without rigorous medical checks. Name the country.

Canada is offering this today.
They are pretty developed.

Wrong. There is no assisted death on demand in Canada. There are two separate tracks for those who are terminal and those who are suffering intolerably and both include a sort of the process two independent assessments by medical professionals.

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Anonymous wrote:This is definitely very unsettling. I support it but it's haunting. She's 30. That in and of itself is super unsettling.

+1

OP what was the disease?

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Anonymous wrote:If SHE isn't ok with her condition, it doesn't matter a single flying f*** what you or anyone else thinks. How dare you think you know better than her. "wasn't that bad". GFY op.

DP. This is a disgusting take. One of my extended family members offed himself because of chronic pain and depression. He had four kids: two were already adults and two were still minors. By your logic, he had zero responsibility to his kids to try his damndest to get better.

This person had no children, or it seems, reason to live. Which also makes me sad.

So you think people without kids have no reason to live? Wt..

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Anonymous wrote:If SHE isn't ok with her condition, it doesn't matter a single flying f*** what you or anyone else thinks. How dare you think you know better than her. "wasn't that bad". GFY op.

I mean, by this logic, are you fine with anyone committing su*cide anytime for any (or no) reason? Why involve a doctor at all? In my view, this attitude is very problematic.

Apparently this is the situation for this country. You don't need medical clearance to do it. You just need to be of sound mind.

This isn’t adding up. There isn’t any country in the developed world that offers any form of assisted death without rigorous medical checks. Name the country.

Canada is offering this today.
They are pretty developed.

Canada doesn't allow it for fibromyalgia, even if you are struggling.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/maid-poverty-disability-1.6687453

No country allows it for fibromyalgia. I have fibromyalgia and other diseases and everyday is a real struggle for me. Sometimes I feel like I'm a waste of breath and would be better off gone but I do not have the guts to kill myself.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Someone we know my an announcement on social media that in her 30s she was choosing to end her life and waa approved to end her life in another country. Her message posted on social media was confusing and unsettling to pretty much everyone that knew her that we know.

She said she had an incurable disease that wasn't that bad but was choosing to end her life before it got bad because her life wouldn't be the way she imagined it and that we'd never hear from her again.

I think that line sort of stuck with us. That life wasn't worth living if it was as someone less abled or exactly as imagined.

I'm very pro assisted death. I don't understand how we can put animals down and watched loved ones suffer, but this one just feels so...

I wish this was available in the US. I would make the same choice.

They do:

https://allaboutlawyer.com/is-assisted-suicide-legal-in-the-united-states-state-laws-recent-court-rulings/

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Anonymous wrote:Also she is selfish as she isn’t thinking about her parents. No child has a right to go before their parents are gone unless it’s something truly morbid

Yes, Susie. The unselfish thing is to watch your child suffer for years and years just so you can die first. Hey, how about you kill yourself first and that way your child won't feel the obligation to hang on just for you. WTAF???

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Anonymous wrote:If SHE isn't ok with her condition, it doesn't matter a single flying f*** what you or anyone else thinks. How dare you think you know better than her. "wasn't that bad". GFY op.

I mean, by this logic, are you fine with anyone committing su*cide anytime for any (or no) reason? Why involve a doctor at all? In my view, this attitude is very problematic.

Apparently this is the situation for this country. You don't need medical clearance to do it. You just need to be of sound mind.

This isn’t adding up. There isn’t any country in the developed world that offers any form of assisted death without rigorous medical checks. Name the country.

Canada is offering this today.
They are pretty developed.

Canada doesn't allow it for fibromyalgia, even if you are struggling.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/maid-poverty-disability-1.6687453

That’s not what the article says. It says she currently doesn’t qualify based on her fibromyalgia, but she might re-apply if it gets worse.

Doctors need to stop with that diagnosis. It’s the blow off of we don’t know what is wrong and cannot be bothered figuring it out. I was diagnosed with it and years later finally got a good doctor and it’s far more serious. The daily pain can be bad.

What is it?

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Anonymous wrote:If there is no God, everything is permitted.

If there is a God, he certainly permits babies and children to be raped and killed.

What a stupid statement. Humans have free will.

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Anonymous wrote:If there is no God, everything is permitted.

If there is a God, he certainly permits babies and children to be raped and killed.

What a stupid statement. Humans have free will.

Do children have free will to get cancer or get raped?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If there is no God, everything is permitted.

If there is a God, he certainly permits babies and children to be raped and killed.

What a stupid statement. Humans have free will.

1. Humans don’t have free will; it’s an illusion.
2. Even IF humans have free will, the God you believe in already knows what a pedophile would do with a child and could stop the pedophile or arrange another way to keep the child safe while preserving free will (e.g., keep pedo at red light so he never interacts with with the child).